Karrin Allyson: Imagina
Copy at Case Memorial Library
Stephen Holden wrote in the New York Times: "Every jazz singer has a Brazilian album under his or her hat, usually focused on the songs of Antonio Carlos Jobim. Whether it takes you to bossa nova dreamsville in a misty tropical paradise or into the jungle on a samba expedition depends on the singer’s temperament. Karrin Allyson, whose four-night engagement at Birdland ends on Saturday, takes a middle ground on her Brazilian album 'Imagina' (Concord), 10 of whose 14 songs have music by Jobim. … The joy in a song like 'A Felicidade' ('Happiness'), from the movie 'Black Orpheus,' is all the more palpable because of the realization that it is evanescent. When Ms. Allyson sang it in both Portuguese and English (Susannah McCorkle's translation of Vinicius de Moraes's lyric), she looked the song straight in the eye; there were no flutters and sighs. … Ms. Allyson is really a jazz equivalent of Bonnie Raitt. She approaches a romantic song from a perspective that is wised up and well defended but not quite tough. I couldn’t imagine her falling for a line of sweet talk" ("Love Songs Without Sighs," 4/5/08).
Stephen Holden wrote in the New York Times: "Every jazz singer has a Brazilian album under his or her hat, usually focused on the songs of Antonio Carlos Jobim. Whether it takes you to bossa nova dreamsville in a misty tropical paradise or into the jungle on a samba expedition depends on the singer’s temperament. Karrin Allyson, whose four-night engagement at Birdland ends on Saturday, takes a middle ground on her Brazilian album 'Imagina' (Concord), 10 of whose 14 songs have music by Jobim. … The joy in a song like 'A Felicidade' ('Happiness'), from the movie 'Black Orpheus,' is all the more palpable because of the realization that it is evanescent. When Ms. Allyson sang it in both Portuguese and English (Susannah McCorkle's translation of Vinicius de Moraes's lyric), she looked the song straight in the eye; there were no flutters and sighs. … Ms. Allyson is really a jazz equivalent of Bonnie Raitt. She approaches a romantic song from a perspective that is wised up and well defended but not quite tough. I couldn’t imagine her falling for a line of sweet talk" ("Love Songs Without Sighs," 4/5/08).
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